The Weekend With Yinka Ilori
It's Nice That
You’ve landed on some cultural recommendations for an even better weekend: flick through Yinka Ilori’s rundown of what to read, watch, listen to and eat!
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E-Commerce Packaging Design That Turns Boxes Into Marketing
Designer Daily
Your product’s packaging is the first physical touchpoint most customers will have with your brand. For e-commerce brands, the box is not just protection. It is a billboard, a thank-you note, an...
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Last Call: CA Back-Issue Blowout Sale!
CommArts
Today’s the last day in our back-issue blowout sale! Every issue of Communication Arts from 1959 to the present is 50 percent off until midnight tonight. So don’t wait to take advantage of...
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PETA spot
Human actors take the place of animal test subjects in this harrowing spot for PETA, directed by Favio Vinson of Papaya Films.
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Who knew a spiral could do so much? Pentagram did, in this joyful Tokyo museum identity
BP&O
The Museum of Narratives (also known as MoN Takanawa) is located in Tokyo’s Takanawa Gateway City, and opened a couple of months ago in March 2026. It’s something of an experimental museum with a cros...
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Priscilla Saada’s photo series Moons is a cheeky snapshot of modern motherhood
It's Nice That
Styling intimate and relatable slip moments, the series is an ode to everything a mother juggles with little ones under her arms.
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Fancy a fresh set of nails? Caitlin McCarthy’s animated acrylic body horror might make you think again
Inspired by Japanese gore films and the body horror of self-manicures, this animator navigates the trials and tribulations of cosmetic chaos.
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Daisy Chain, Jazz Grant, Lily Kong and Alfie Whiteman: Tickets now available for July’s Nicer Tuesdays!
At July’s event in London, expect talks from a motion design studio, an illustrator of beautiful rural scenes and an ex-Tottenham goalie-turned-photographer!
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Lily Li uses watercolour paint “like snow” to translate the illusions and struggles of immigration
This illustrator’s new story project Northbound is about how people are shaped the persistence of struggling within a system. The results are bleak and beautifully painted.
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From the dancefloor to the afters, this hedonistic book is an unfiltered photographic history of queer nightlife
Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a fantastic foray into queer image-making that defies “easy categorisation or legibility”. Instead, it revels in its multiplicity.
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Meet the iconic printmakers that shaped half a century of the UK’s contemporary graphic art
In this deep dive into 50 Years of Print, the exhibition celebrating art from the archive of Harvey Lloyd screens, we go behind the scenes on the studio’s remarkable legacy and its imprint on design a...
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Daylight Savings
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on ready-to-drink sparkling tonic brand Sunwink. The post Daylight Savings appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
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Mamdani’s NYC World Cup campaign is inspired by sports memorabilia, city signage, the subway and the five boroughs
Working with designer and illustrator Arsh Raziuddin, Mayor Mamdani’s City Hall campaign aims to build community by being rooted in local visual culture.
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Creative Spark’s bold, no nonsense identity for hair loss brand Leo
Leo is billed as a “hair rejuvenation brand”,founded by duo Jason Saks (who carries the rather sweet, and quite funny job title of Director of Hair Loss) and his son Joe, with the broad aim to make...
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Unpack how Amanita Design created an entire game out of cardboard, paper and 3D programmes
The newest game from Czech games studio Amanita Design doesn’t just think outside of the box, it’s literally made from the box.
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Crack a cold one and enjoy Glenn Kitson’s noisy love letter to British colloquialisms for Strongbow
The new Streets-soundtracked campaign is a belter! Directed by Glenn Kitson in collaboration with Otherway, this ode to Britishisms and the nation’s number one cider brand puts authenticity first.
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“Make your work as easy to find as possible”
Creative Career Conundrums is a weekly advice column from If You Could Jobs. Each week their selected panel of professionals from the creative industry answers your burning career questions to help yo...
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Teaching AI a Visual Language
Muzli
How I Turned a Tool Into a Creative PartnerContinue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »
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Sebastian Curi, How&How, Minute Shorts, Canva: Tickets now available for Cannes Nicer Tuesdays!
We’re teaming up with Canva to bring Nicer Tuesdays back to Cannes for 2026! Join us for an inspiring line-up of talks on analogue illustration, short-form filmmaking, genre-defying branding and creat...
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From Moomin to Heartstopper: How comics have told real queer stories since the 1940s
Now open at the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration in London, Queer as Comics is the UK’s first major exhibition on the subject. We speak to curator Paul Gravett about its rich archive of work,...
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A24 creative director Liam Hamill embraces brainrot with his monthly music venue posters
The associate creative director behind A24’s biggest hits is trading blockbusters for Brooklyn brainrot, internet satire and tongue-in-cheek energy for venue Baby’s All Right.
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Meet Nice Groceries, the creatives shaking up the production agency model with the slow craft of analogue film
From camcorders and Super8 to 16mm, the emerging studio is creating commercial campaigns that hold the nostalgia and charm of indie, amateur movie-making.
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How I Use AI as a UI/UX Designer Without Losing Creativity
AI can speed up my design process, but creativity still comes from human thinking, real problems, and understanding users.Continue reading on Muzli - Design Inspiration »
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The Weekend With Julia Schimautz
For The Weekend With, creative people share cultural recommendations across food, film, fashion, literature, music and more, to help you make the most of your time off. This week, Julia Schimautz offe...
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Mark your calendars for New Designers 2026
Between 1-4 July 2026, New Designers 2026 takes over Islington’s Business Design Centre, London, in an entirely new four-day programme celebrating and showcasing creative graduates.
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Another Collective’s identity for smash burger brand Brusco deftly reinvents classic burger joint design tropes
Food trends are a funny old thing aren’t they. And just as design trends are never just about ‘aesthetics’ – the ‘what something looks like’ divorced from the world around it, food trends aren’t...
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James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music
From reconfigured American flags to decimated collages, James Stuart is a graphic designer, filmmaker and musician whose work has the riotousness of independent rock music as well as the craft of care...
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Anthony Wilson’s Mawmaw is a tender photobook on the grandmothers who became mothers again
Mawmaw is as much of an education as it is an absorbing narrative on West Virginia’s grandfamilies – families in which grandparents become primary caregivers again. Photographer Anthony Wilson shoots...
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Why Designers Are Switching to Modern Publishing Software on Mac
Mac graphic design has never been short of capable tools. The platform built its reputation on creativity, and most designers working in it today have refined the stack they trust entirely. But the pu...
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“There is no formula for art”: Murugiah on why you should make art about things you love
What has Murugiah, the multi-disciplinary British and Sri-Lankan artist, not done? He’s an artist, illustrator and designer in London, and his recent talk on May’s Nicer Tuesdays stage took us through...
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Now You See It
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Studio Bland’s work for Australian butter brand Bu Deli. The post Now You See It appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
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Logo Design Psychology: What Your Shape Choices Communicate
Every shape carries psychological weight. The circle does not just look round. It feels safe, complete, and continuous. The square does not just look boxy. It feels stable, trustworthy, and grounded....
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Koto breathes new life into Floridian arts institution The Norton
The Norton Museum of Art began life in 1941 in West Palm Beach, Florida, and in the near-century since, its whole raison d’être has been based around its role as a place where “art and life meet...
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How EL Wire Transforms Graphic Design, Installations, and Creative Branding
Source: ChatGPT There’s something almost otherworldly about a glowing line of light that bends, twists, and traces any shape you can imagine without needing a power plant to run it. That’s...
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Friction Kills Fantasy
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on Beta Design’s work on Fussy’s refillable hand soap. The post Friction Kills Fantasy appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Op...
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OlssønBarbieri rewrites the rulebook on ‘formality’ in its melodrama-infused Theaterbaren identity
Oslo’s Nationaltheatret (simply translated to English as National Theatre) first opened its doors more than a century ago in 1899, and has since come to not only reflect, but actively shape cultural i...
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Rebranding Case Study: What Worked (and What Didn’t)
Rebranding is one of the most expensive and risky investments a company can make. When it works, it revitalizes a stagnant brand, attracts new audiences, and drives growth. When it fails, it confuses...
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Minimalist Logo Design: When Less Actually Says More
Minimalist logo design is often misunderstood. Critics dismiss it as lazy, generic, or a passing trend. But true minimalism is not about removing elements for the sake of emptiness. It is about removi...
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Mecca Coffee by Christopher Doyle & Co.
Sydney-based Mecca Coffee started life in 2005, and has since become one of the city’s leading specialty coffee roasters, importers, and retailers. To mark the company’s 20th anniversary, Christopher...
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Loud Mouth
Packaging expert Lisa Cain shares her opinion on PepsiCo Design and Innovation’s work on Mirinda. The post Loud Mouth appeared first on BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion.
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Packaging Design Trends That Are Dominating Retail Shelves in 2026
In 2026, packaging has become a brand’s most valuable marketing tool. With consumers spending mere seconds scanning shelves, and even less time scrolling through digital storefronts, successful packag...
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Strangers by Auge Design
Strangers is a new confectionery brand created by Valgosa, a family company dating back to 1912 and seemingly best known as purveyors of saffron. It seems an unlikely starting point for such a boldly...
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10 Essential Photoshop Plugins That Will Transform Your Workflow
Adobe Photoshop is an incredibly powerful tool, but it can also be overwhelming. The right plugins add features, automate tedious tasks, and unlock creative possibilities that would take hours to achi...
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NoomaLooma by Cotton
NoomaLooma is described as a “platform built around small moments of making”. As far as I can tell, it’s an app in its early stages (at the moment, it’s just for iPhone), and it’s launched with a bran...